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Morale at PSA
Imagine that you are a PSA grader. Every day you come to work and go to the storeroom and pick up your stack of ungraded cards to be graded that day by 5PM. Every day the storeroom seems to be getting larger. Every day the lines of lemmings (i.e. collectors) at the office and at shows get longer and longer. Fork lifts are now required to bring in the daily mail on pallets. Every day your stack of ungraded cards is a little higher due to the “sincere” corporate interest in reducing backlog and turn around times. But every day as the storeroom grows, the lines get longer, the backlog increases and turn around times lengthen, you groan but carry on. How do you really feel about your job?
Your name is Sisyphus. Camus wrote an essay about you called “The Myth of a PSA grader”.
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Speaking of Camus.
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sounds like a postal job newman?
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Sounds much like a local DMV worker.
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And to think that in another thread someone suggested the cards get CAT scanned.
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I Stated there Should be a Way to do that Sort of Thing (To Take Out the Element of Human Error and Keep Everything Consistent). Last edited by that T206 Guy; 06-25-2018 at 11:10 AM. |
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Interesting comparison, Frank. And one day that boulder may roll over the graders before they reach the top of the hill, er, pile of raw cards!
Unlike Sisyphus who was condemned by the gods to repeat this seemingly meaningless task, graders at PSA willing signed on for the work. But I wonder if many of them have come to the same conclusion as Camus: "The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
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And I can't believe Peter actually has a trading card of Camus. How many Camus's(sp) does one need to trade to get one Mickey Mantle?
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I am still looking for a Sartre from the same issue. And Einstein.
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Getting back to Frank's original post, I do believe all the graders are over worked, and to compensate they unfortunately grade cards more quickly than they should. And as such, there is a lack of accuracy. It's a lucrative business, so why not hire a few more graders? |
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Is he missing part of his head?
Back to topic. It would take a lot of money for me to be a grader.
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No, he had a medical condition known as a fivehead, its 25% bigger than a forehead
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On the positive side its also called job security... By the way sent 30+ cards in on 5/31 under the monthly $6.50 special and had them back in my hand on June 19th...so things are looking better!
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Perhaps the turtle has morphed into a rabbit.
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Backlog
I just got a bulk order back in 10 business days.
They may be getting over the hump
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Speak for yourself.
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